St. Patrick's Day Painting!!

Newsletter Information

Mrs. Hendershot’s Class

Friday, March 7^th, 2014

Dates:

    March 12^th – Early Out and Report Cards Go Home!

    March 14^th – No School for K students due to Round Up!!

    March 17-21- No School – Spring Break

    March 26- Early Out

Daily 5:

We have been very busy working on determining importance and visualizing in our reading.  We spent a lot of time working on finding the hidden clues to determine the importance in our books we read.  Also we took time to make pictures in our minds while reading to help us with visualizing the story.

Also many of us moved to a new level in our book clubs so we are enjoying reading harder books.  If they did not move to a new level they are continuing their hard work at their level.  We are really working on the strategies of sounding out, looking at the beginning sound, and chunking the word to figure it out!

Math:

We have been very busy finishing up our addition unit.  We worked on understanding that adding means you are getting more.  We spent time on the plus sign and the equal sign.  They also know how to write an addition sentence all on their own.  Keep working on this at home.  In our new unit we will be working on subtraction. The students will be learning about how when you subtract that means you are taking away.  This can be harder so we are taking extra time to make sure we understand this concept!  Please discuss this at home also!

Science:

We began our Science unit discussing trees!  What a topic to discuss with all this snow on the ground but we have been creative!  J  We have discussed the main parts of all trees, looked at a real tree, and we have even been working on figuring out the shapes of trees.  It has been a lot of fun and we are excited to move on to learning about the leaves on trees next! 

Helpful Hints:

·      Practice Counting by 10’s to 100!

·      Start working on basic subtraction at home.  2 minus 1 equals 1. 

Flashlight Fun!!

Today was a lot of fun!  We had a mystery reader who was Mrs. Ross.  She comes into our classroom to help plus she is Karlee's grandma.  Then we read "And to Think that I saw in on Mulberry Street...".  That was a great story to read because it really got our imagination flowing.  We then did a connect the dots and were able to color those in.  After that we spent many different times of the day in the dark!!!  :)  We did some buddy reading in the dark, listening to stories in the dark, and even some math!  Oh what fun we had with those flashlights!  Can't wait until tomorrow!

Wacky Wednesday!!

WOW!!!  Did we ever have a Wacky Wednesday!!!  It was a lot of fun!  First we all dressed up as wacky as we could.  Then we heard the story "Wacky Wednesday" and wrote about what we would see if that happened to us.  Then we just had a lot of fun doing all sort of different activities during the day!  We had another mystery reader....Jake's mom!  We had all sorts of clues and it took awhile but finally we were able to figure out who it might be!  Can't wait for what the rest of the week brings!  Enjoy our pictures of buddy reading in our wacky clothes!!

Green Day!!

On Tuesday we all wore green to celebrate the book "Green Eggs and Ham".  It was great to see everyone in all their green clothes!  WOW everyone wore something green!!  Thanks for all your help!  We spent some time discussing trees...perfect because they can be green.  The students all had a partner and were able to play a memory game with different types of trees!  They had a blast!   Then we had our next mystery reader and it was Ms. Shuey our custodian!  She was a tough one to guess as we were not as familiar with her.  Many of the students called her the "vacuum lady".  She loved it and enjoyed reading her children't favorite book to us!  We also played a Cat in the Hat stripes game which was fun too!